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Answer for the clue "Complete, in law ", 6 letters:
choate

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Word definitions for choate in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"finished, complete," mistaken back-formation from inchoate (q.v.) as though that word contained in- "not." First attested 1878 in letter from Oliver Wendell Holmes lamenting barbarisms in legal case writing (he said he found choate in a California report). ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Choate may refer to: Choate (law) , a legal term Choate (surname)

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. complete

Usage examples of choate.

From out in the quad the guard bugle sounded Drill Call imperatively and Chief Choate got up from the bunk, looking at Prew blankly searchingly.

Read the passage in the eulogy on Choate where he describes him arming himself in the entire panoply of his gorgeous rhetoric--and you will get some far-away conception of the power of this magician.

The following day one of the attorneys complained, and Judge Choate conducted an evidentiary hearing in open court.

Old Ike concluded, glaring at Prew shortly, looking accusingly at Choate lying back relaxing.

Roger Minott Sherman was unquestionably the ablest lawyer in New England who never obtained distinction in political life, and, with the exception of Daniel Webster and Jeremiah Mason and Rufus Choate, the ablest New England ever produced.

Shining One with the seven orbs of light which are the channels between it and the sentience we sought to make articulate, the portals through which flow its currents and so flowing, become choate, vocal, self-realizant within our child.

I have degrees from the Choate School, Harvard, and Harvard Medical School.

Brahmin aristocrat by heritage, and an inconsequential Choate, of all things.

The names, the triple names, sanctified by time, girls named Rowan and Choate and Palmer, boys named Amory and McGeorge and Harcourt.

In certain recent crises the thought of losing him produced something like a panic in the English mind, justifying in regard to him, the hyperbole of Choate upon the death of Webster, that the sailor on the distant sea would feel less safe-- as if a protecting providence had been withdrawn from the world.

Choate, 61) A United Nations agency has used a weighted average life for aluminum products of twenty years (Id.